Dear Feed the Children family, As I write these words, I come before you with a heavy heart. As I shared with all our staff during the Global Town Hall meeting this morning, I have chosen not to renew my contract with Feed the Children when it expires on May 31, 2015. On June 1st, Read More

To be in a line of work like I am at Feed the Children, finding sources of refreshment and fuel for the future is important. One of the small things I do for just this purpose is subscribe to Inspiration Daily along with a joke of the day website (because hey, we’ve all got to keep laughing, right?). Every Read More

There’s been much excitement around the Feed the Children offices all over the world since our big announcement in June! From Honduras to the Philippines, Washington DC and back, our new logo and our new brand has brought our staff much energy and enthusiasm for the future. I’ve heard great reports from our donors and Read More

Did you know that Feed The Children has a blog where we tell all kinds of stories about what is going on in our organization? Check out Beyond today! Here’s a portion of my latest contribution over there to the Leader’s Corner channel. It was exciting to be in the Feed The Children offices in Read More

What does a President of a large international relief and development organization get for a gift? After all I’ve seen and experienced in my travels around the world, I’m convinced that I don’t need a thing. However, it is good to have a comfortable office space in which to work, but it is even more Read More

Last week, Forbes Magazine came out with an article by Phil DeMuth called, “Death of the Big Charity” with the basic hypothesis that younger philanthropic givers are skeptical of large institutional charities. DeMuth writes: “While their parents were happy to write elephantine checks to the “American Big Disease Association” or the “Big City Cultural Institution” Read More

Being in this line of work, people stop to ask me two kinds of questions. The first is something along the lines, of (not really a question) “Wow, you must sleep so well at night knowing what kind of good work you are doing?” (These are the people who want to make me into the Read More

Even if you aren’t a visionary leader or a visionary organization, one of the easiest things you can do to make people on the outside think that you are is to create a strategic plan. The process of writing it can be as simple or complicated as you want it to be. Meeting after meeting, Read More

New Year’s Day will be here so soon! It’s that time of year when we all seek to sit down and make resolutions. We seek to get our financial life in order. We want to lose weight. We want to be better people. I am not the kind of guy who often makes resolutions. Not Read More

Last week, the Feed The Children Christmas tour continued as Elizabeth and I packed our bags for Central America. We went to see the field programs that seek to feed children, provide better opportunities for education and livelihood development– many of which I had seen before (in Honduras last December) and in Nicaragua (which I Read More